The cry for Marvel's Captain America and Bucky Barnes to hook up is being taken up on Twitter. Much like "Star Wars Episode 8" is seeing Oscar Isaac's Poe Dameron being paired up with John Boyega's Finn, so did LGBT proponents see the potential in Captain America and Bucky Barnes.
Bucky Barnes As Boyfriend For Captain America
According to Time, LGBT proponents have been staging the campaign to give Captain America a boyfriend on Twitter. A number of users have been using #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend to promote this campaign for the Marvel characters.
Seeing Chris Evans as Captain American risk life, limb and affiliation to save his long-time friend Bucky Barnes, played by Sebastian Stan, inspired the boyfriend campaign. In "Captain America: Civil War" Steve Rogers went against all odds to support the reform of Bucky Barnes, the erstwhile Winter Soldier.
'Star Wars' Pairing Similar To Captain American And Bucky Barnes
This type of brotherhood and friendship, so to speak, between Oscar Isaac and John Boyega's characters in "Star Wars" inspired LGBT proponents to call see boyfriend potential between them. Similar to Captain America and Bucky Barnes, Poe Dameron and Finn were pushed into life-threatening situations in "Star Wars," from which they aided each other.
What About Platonic Love?
Fusion, however, points out that rather than turning Captain America gay, Marvel has many other LGBT characters in its roster to choose from. Marvel can give LGBT proponents the superhero films they want to see without changing the heterosexual leaning that's been developed for Captain America.
Captain America, Poe Dameron, Princess Elsa LGBT Compromises?
In the same vein, Refinery 29 proposes that platonic love, such as shared by good friends and exemplified by Captain America and Bucky Barnes are just as valid. At the same time LGBT proponents have more superhero options to consider.
Addressing recent demands for "Frozen 2" to be a coming out story for Elsa, a Newsweek articles suggests that such a demand is in fact a week compromise. According to Newsweek, rather than have Elsa (and in this article Captain America, Bucky Barnes, Poe Dameron) turn gay, LGBT proponents should demand for an intentional film that stars a gay character from the beginning.
